History:
(Iron Man I#109 (fb) - BTS) - After Yuri Petrovitch was retired as the
Crimson Dynamo, the Russian government selected KGB operative Dimitri
Bukharin as the new wearer of the armor, and he was sent to work
alongside their superhuman agents Vanguard and Darkstar.

(Iron
Man I#110 (fb)) - The Crimson Dynamo, Darkstar and Vanguard took a ship
to Earth's moon to investigate a signal coming from the Blue Area of
the Moon. They were shot by members of the extraterrestrial Rigellian
race, who mistook them for their enemies, the Knights of Wundagore.
They crashed on the moon.

(Iron
Man I#109) - Three days later, Jack of Hearts and Iron Man arrived on
the moon, also investigating the signal. The Crimson Dynamo mistakenly
thought they were responsible for attacking them, and began a fight.
Iron Man in turn mistook Bukharin for his predecessor, Alex Nevsky.
When Darkstar realized that a mistake had been made, she had Bukharin
unmask to prove to Iron Man that he was not Nevsky. Iron Man and Jack
of Hearts went on to investigate the Rigellian vessel orbiting the
moon.

(Iron
Man I#110-111) - The Crimson Dynamo repaired their communications
equipment from their craft, and they received a transmission from their
superiors in Russia, asking them to work alongside Tony Stark and
S.H.I.E.L.D. against the Rigellian menace.

(Iron
Man I#112) - The three Russians aided Jack of Hearts against the
Rigellians until the battle finally came to an end when Recorder#211
relieved the Rigellian fleet commander Arcturus of his command.

(Marvel
Team-Up Annual#2) - The Crimson Dynamo, Vanguard and Darkstar invaded
the U.S. to kidnap Dr. Daniel Ironwood on behalf of the KGB's Nikolai
Kutzov, who wanted Ironwood to build an anti-matter bomb. They wound up
taking Dr. Ironwood's daughter Cissy captive as well. When Alexi
Vazhin, Spider-Man and Bruce Banner came to the site of the bomb's
construction, the three Russian heroes fought them, and the Crimson
Dynamo was beaten unconscious by Spider-Man.

(Incredible
Hulk II#250) - When the Silver Surfer passed through Russian airspace,
the Crimson Dynamo and Darkstar monitored him from the air.

(Incredible
Hulk II#258) - The Soviet Super-Soldiers were brought together by
Colonel Yuri Brevlov and had Ursa Major added to their ranks for a
mission to the "Forbidden Zone," the site of a nuclear detonation by
the Presence.
They were to investigate what was causing the radiation to spread. When
they were teleported there by Darkstar, they found themselves
face-to-face with the Hulk, and attacked him, thinking he was somehow
responsible. The Hulk resisted all of the Crimson Dynamo's weaponry,
and knocked him unconscious.

(Incredible Hulk II#259) - Darkstar teleported the Crimson Dynamo to a hospital where he could be treated for his injuries.

(Marvel
Super-Hero Contest of Champions#1) - The Soviet Super-Soldiers attacked
the Red Ghost in Novaya Zemlya to prevent him from starting tremors
that would topple Russia's cities, but they were suddenly teleported
away by the Grandmaster as potential participants in his game with
Death.

(Marvel
Super-Hero Contest of Champions#2-3 - BTS) - The Crimson Dynamo and the
other Soviet Super-Soldiers remained in stasis while the game was
played out, and were finally returned home when it concluded.

(Marvel
Team-Up Annual#7/2) - The Crimson Dynamo fought the Human Torch and
Black Panther for unknown reasons, and was ultimately defeated by them
and turned over to the FBI.

(Secret
Wars II#7) - The Crimson Dynamo was among the super-villains gathered
by Mephisto as the Legion Accursed to attack the Beyonder in an attempt
to kill him, but they were prevented from attacking him by the Thing.

(Official
Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition#5 - Crimson Dynamo) -
Bukharin was given new armor designed by the Gremlin.

(X-Factor
Annual#1) - The Crimson Dynamo was employed as defense at
Doppelganger's laboratory in Siberia where mutants were being held for
experiments. He fought X-Factor when they entered the complex, and was
defeated when Iceman gave him Doppelganger's surrender code.

(X-Men
Vs. Avengers#1) - The Crimson Dynamo helped the other Soviet
Super-Soldiers (who had quit working for the government and teamed up
with the Gremlin as the Titanium Man), in battling a fire at a railroad
yard. The Soviet Super-Soldiers no longer trusted Bukharin because he
was KGB, but he convinced them to aid him on a mission to investigate
the crash of Magneto's Asteroid M base in Russian territory. When they
caught up to Magneto in Kampuchea, they found the Avengers and the
X-Men standing alongside him. When they refused to turn Magneto over,
they attacked.

(X-Men
Vs. Avengers#2) - The Crimson Dynamo's armor was badly damaged by
Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau), and he was incapacitated along with
his comrades when Dr. Druid took over Darkstar's mind and made her bind them in her darkforce.

(X-Men
Vs. Avengers#3) - The Titanium Man managed to snap Darkstar out of Dr.
Druid's control, and they pursued Magneto's trail to Singapore. They
again fought the Avengers and X-Men aboard a ship Magneto was traveling
on, and the Crimson Dynamo blasted a hole in the ship's side, nearly
sinking it. After performing a rescue operation, the Avengers revealed
to the Soviet Super-Soldiers that the Crimson Dynamo was responsible,
and they swore off the pursuit of Magneto so that they could turn
Bukharin over to maritime authorities.

(Iron
Man I#229) - The Crimson Dynamo and Titanium Man were summoned together
by the Russian government, who informed them of how Iron Man had been
attacking armored people in the United States, and was certain to
pursue them sooner or later. Bukharin had only one more week of service
to the state as the Crimson Dynamo, but was committed to aid them
against Iron Man. However, the Titanium Man refused to cooperate with
the government. The government decided to use the Titanium Man as bait,
and waited for Iron Man to come after him at his base, Bitterfrost.
When Iron Man arrived, the Crimson Dynamo joined the fray, but Iron Man
used a negator pack to short out his armor, rendering it useless.

(Captain
America I#353 (fb) - BTS) - The Crimson Dynamo's armor was repaired and
he remained in active service, now alongside the Supreme Soviets.

(Captain
America I#353) - As a member of the Supreme Soviets, the Crimson Dynamo
was disguised by Fantasia as Iron Man as they stole onto Avengers
Island to assassinate Darkstar, Vanguard and Ursa Major, who were
attempting to defect. When the three defectors appeared dead, they
teleported away.

(Captain
America I#354) - When "the Great Beast" created by Darkstar, Vanguard
and Ursa Major's subconsciousness attacked Moscow, the Supreme Soviets
responded, and were absorbed into the creature, where the three
defectors intended to have revenge by killing them, but Captain America
convicned the trio to let the Supreme Soviets live.

(Iron
Man Annual#10/2) - Dimitri visited a bar in the United States, and
alongside Half-Face, the Space Phantom, Inoshiro Kondo, Blizzard,
Beetle and Blacklash, swapped stories about battling Iron Man. They all
fled when Iron Man suddenly entered the bar.

(Soviet
Super-Soldiers#1) - After halting some environmental activists in
Yvborg with the Supreme Soviets, the Crimson Dynamo met with Fyodr
Shelkov who told him that his army service extension to the Supreme
Soviets had been rescinded, and either he or the armor would have to be
turned over. Three days later they met with Colonel-General Valentin
Shatalov, who ordered Bukharin to recover the original Titanium Man,
who had been lost in New York City when a card he had electronically
transferred his essence to had been torn into pieces. Dimitri began to
retrieve the card fragments so that he could be re-integrated, but the
Titanium Man's one-time allies in the Green Liberation Front were
accidentally reactivated, and being anti-Russian, attacked the Crimson
Dynamo. He was forced to bring the Titanium Man back for aid, and
because parts of his body were missing, the Titanium Man went on a
rampage, killing all of the Green Liberation Front. Bukharin drew
Titanium Man over the Atlantic Ocean, then returned him to card form.

By
the time Bukharin brought the Titanium Man to Shatalov, the scandal
over the massacre in the U.S. was enough to force Bukharin to turn over
the Crimson Dynamo armor. He realized that this was what Shatalov had
wanted all along. He returned to his teammates, now calling themselves
the People's Protectorate, and told them that he could no longer be the
Crimson Dynamo, but they refused to accept his resignation -- they had
already fashioned a new identity for him in the Protectorate as
Airstrike, and he attended the team's first press conference.

(Avengers
I#319) - The People's Protectorate were sent after the British
submarine Waterwind, which had been captured by the Russian terrorists
Peace Corpse. When the Avengers came after the submarine as well, the
two teams quarreled over jurisdictions. Their fight was interrupted by
the arrival of Atlanteans led by Tyrak, Orka and U-Man.

(Avengers
I#320) - The two teams fought off the Atlanteans together, then agreed
to cooperate in pursuing the Waterwind as it surfaced in St. John's,
Newfoundland. They were confronted there by Alpha Flight, who claimed
jurisdiction over both teams.

(Avengers
I#321-322) - While some of the heroes confronted the Peace Corpse
within the Waterwind, the Atlanteans attacked St. John's, and the
Crimson Dynamo joined in the fight against them. Battling U-Man, he
generated heat from his armor to quickly dehydrate him. He finally
turned U-Man over to Alpha Flight's Guardian to deal with.

(Avengers
I#323) - When the nuclear missiles aboard Waterwind were set off,
Shaman teleported all of the bystanders into alien dimensions,
including the Crimson Dynamo, who appeared in a dimension of black
skies and purple water alongside Tyrak, Madison Jeffries, Orka, Puck,
Quasar and Perun. They made psychic contact with Fantasma, and
gradually linked up to the heroes scattered in all of the dimensions.
Suddenly, the leaders of the Peace Corpse appeared, mutated into the
superhuman Combine.

(Avengers
I#324) - The heroes fought the Combine until the other four members of
Peace Corpse were able to merge with the Combine, rendering the entity
benign, and it departed. All of the heroes were returned to St. John's
by Shaman, and departed in peace.

(Incredible Hulk II#393) - The People's Protectorate were sent to retrieve former KGB agent Igor Drenkov
from the U.S., but ran into the Pantheon, led by the Hulk. The Crimson
Dynamo fought the Hulk, but was defeated when he was thrown into an
electrified Perun. Vostok used his unconscious body to attack the Hulk,
manipulating the armor, but the Hulk managed to incapacitate Vostok.
The Hulk finally revealed that he had only wanted to teach Drenkov a
lesson for having turned him into the Hulk years ago.

Comments: Created by Bill Mantlo, Carmine Infantino, and Fred Kida.

The
Crimson Dynamo was about twice as big as usual when he first appeared
in his new armor in X-Factor Annual#1. He also behaved more like a
robot than a human.

A
Crimson Dynamo wearing the Gremlin design appeared in JLA/Avengers#4,
but since the characters were pulled from different points in time in
this story it could another Dynamo wearing the same armor.

HUGE FREAKIN' CONTINUITY ERROR!

Okay,
Soviet Super-Soldiers#1 was originally intended for publication as a
serial in Marvel Comics Presents. By the time it finally appeared in
one shot format, the Supreme Soviets had already made a few appearances
as the People's Protectorate...only Dimitri Bukharin was still wearing
the Crimson Dynamo armor!

The way I see it, you have two choices in how you read "the Crossing Line" and Hulk II#393:

Shatalov let Dimitri borrow the Crimson Dynamo armor

Dimitri was wearing the Airstrike armor all along; it was an artist's error